Father ‘says mean things to cat’ after taking drugs by mistake in hash brownies

Police officers in Nebraska responded to a call earlier this week after a man started experiencing “bad anxiety” after eating some suspect brownies he’d found in his car.

The incident has since attracted international attention after local reporter Kevin Cole’s account in the Omaha World-Herald went viral, thanks in part to its gloriously gnomic headline: “Omaha dad finds pot brownies, eats 4 of them, says mean things to cat.”

According to the World-Herald, the 53-year-old man had discovered the cakes while unloading groceries on Tuesday evening. His adult children had been using the car earlier in the day, and the brownies had been left on the back seat.

The man ate four of them then, while watching TV with his wife, noticed he was beginning to feel peculiar.

Immediately suspecting the brownies were the cause, his wife tried to get in touch with the children to find out what was in them, but was unable to get through.

Police arrived at the house at around 9.45pm and, sometime afterwards, one of the couple’s children returned, telling officers he was “pretty sure it was just marijuana in the brownies".

Paramedics were called to assess the man, who told them he felt like he was “trippin’” but did not wish to be taken to hospital.

According to the Omaha World-Herald, the paramedics noted that the man was “displaying odd behaviour - crawling around on the floor, randomly using profanities and calling the family cat a ‘bitch’."

A spokesman for Omaha police said an investigation into the incident had been concluded.